Thomas Sowell Quotes
People in the political world have every incentive to say things that lead voters away from a clear economic understanding of issues. What has happened more and more is that organized groups have more and more reasons to say things that don't make any economic sense.
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.
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If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.
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High fashion has become representative of stability in unstable places; that allows you to have a voice in the world stage.
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I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
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As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
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People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.
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I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.
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What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?
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I'm always happy and most at home on the stage. I love film and television, but I love live performance... your immediacy with the audience, it makes all the difference in the world.
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I think music should be experienced by people all ages.
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I think every Muslim woman has to feel the world out for herself.
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I think people overplay the 'Saturday Night Live' schedule. I mean, yeah, it can be some late hours. But the late hours are usually only one or two nights out of the week. You might have a crazy six-day week, but you'll work three weeks, and then you get a week off work. I'd take most jobs if it was hard work and then I got a week off.
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Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
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I tried to write 'Trainspotting' in standard English, but people weren't talking like that.
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I’m just saying that right now we could all use a degree of perspective. Because this is not the end of the world.
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At the Rose bowl, when America was playing Mexico, and those that live in this country who have come here from Mexico booed the United States - there's a huge problem with that. This is not the first time that this has happened and I think that, that is because in the United States the cultural Marxist ideas of separating people into different racial groups.
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When I was 26, I wrote my first mystery, 'The Thomas Berryman Number', and it was turned down by, I don't know, 31 publishers. Then it won an Edgar for Best First Novel. Go figure.
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I spend 6 hours filming a Vine.
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People in the political world have every incentive to say things that lead voters away from a clear economic understanding of issues. What has happened more and more is that organized groups have more and more reasons to say things that don't make any economic sense.
